{"id":54346,"date":"2014-09-15T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54346"},"modified":"2014-09-15T11:49:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T16:49:33","slug":"vikes-reinstate-peterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=54346","title":{"rendered":"Vikes reinstate Peterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vikingslogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9509\" alt=\"VikingslogoTHUMB\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Vikingslogo.jpg\" width=\"145\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings are reinstating Adrian Peterson this week after he was charged with child abuse and say he will play on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf made the announcement Monday, one day Peterson was benched during a 30-7 loss to the New England Patriots after he was charged for striking his 4-year-old son with a tree branch this summer.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Vikings say they take the issue very seriously and have given it considerable thought. But they also say they want the legal process to take its course before making any final decisions.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peterson&#8217;s lawyer says the star player was just disciplining his child and did not mean to cause harm.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson will make his first court appearance Wednesday in Texas on a child abuse charge.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peterson is expected to enter a plea at the hearing in Conroe, Texas, after his indictment for reckless or negligent injury to a child. Peterson faces up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine if found guilty.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Peterson&#8217;s attorney, Rusty Hardin, has said he&#8217;s accused of using a wooden switch to spank one of his sons. Hardin has said Peterson is cooperating with authorities and &#8220;used the same kind of discipline&#8221; that he experienced growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) &#8211; The Minnesota Vikings are reinstating Adrian Peterson this week after he was charged with child abuse and say he will play on Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf made the announcement Monday, one day Peterson was benched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54349,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54346\/revisions\/54349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}